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Researcher · École Normale Supérieure de Lyon · France

Cédric Villani

Cédric Villani publishes mostly in Applied Mathematics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#270,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#16,168
of 324,115
Works
291
Citations
23k
Citations per work
79.5
h-index
50
i10-index 77Top 0.5% in Applied Mathematics
Cédric Villani

What does Cédric Villani research?

Cédric Villani's work is mostly in Mathematics (34%), Computer Science (11%), Physics and Astronomy (6%).

Physical Sciences: 151 works · 51.8% of their workMathematics: 100 works · 34.4% of their workApplied Mathematics: 69 works · 23.6% of their workMathematical Physics: 17 works · 5.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 15 works · 5.0% of their workComputer Science: 33 works · 11.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 17 works · 5.7% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 17 works · 5.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 works · 6.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 17 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 140 works · 48.2% of their workTHEIR WORKCédric Villani291works
Physical Sciences52%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Mathematics10034.4%
    2. Computer Science3311.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy176.0%
  2. Everything else14048.2%
  1. 1Applied Mathematics24% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cédric Villani's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Numerical Methods, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Boltzmann Equation, Kinetic Theory, Fluctuation Theorems, Stochastic Thermodynamics and Point Processes.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Numerical Methods732 topics
  2. Optimal Transport551 topic
  3. Ricci Curvature551 topic
  4. Boltzmann Equation481 topic
  5. Kinetic Theory481 topic
  6. Fluctuation Theorems311 topic
  7. Stochastic Thermodynamics311 topic
  8. Point Processes291 topic
  9. Spatstat291 topic
  10. Fractional Laplacian271 topic
  11. Sobolev Spaces271 topic
  12. Inverse Problems251 topic
  13. Regularization Methods251 topic
  14. Kähler Metrics191 topic
  15. Stability191 topic
  16. Historical Sources121 topic
  17. Mathematics Education121 topic

Where does Cédric Villani work?

Cédric Villani's main affiliation in the publication record is École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.

How many publications and citations does Cédric Villani have?

OpenAlex counts 291 works and 23,138 citations for Cédric Villani, an h-index of 50, ranking #270,379 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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